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9780226254685

Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226254685

  • ISBN10:

    0226254682

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-07-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks compelled by critical necessity and an exacting reality. Sartre's history, a rational history of individual lives and their intrinsic social worlds, was in essence immersed in biography. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume work, Thomas R. Flynn conducts a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory, and provocatively anticipates the Foucauldian counterpoint to come in Volume Two.

Author Biography

Thomas R. Flynn is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of Sartre and Marxist Existentialism, published by the University of Chicago Press, and co-editor of Dialectic and Narrative.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Diary and the Map
Acknowledgements
Works Frequently Cited
Living History: The Risk of Choice and the Pinch of the Real
The Dawning of a Theory of History
Dialectic of Historical Understanding
History as Fact and as Value Conclusion to Part One
History Has Its Reasons
TheSensof History:Discovery
History and Biography:Critique 2
Biography and History:The Family Idiot Conclusion to Part Two
Sartre and the Poetics of History: The Historian as Dramaturge
History and Structure: Sartre and Foucault Conclusion to Volume One
Notes
Index
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